Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee, 2018 “Intergenerational Transfers and the Older Population,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Future Directions for the Demography of Aging: Proceedings of a Workshop: 187-214. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25064.
Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason (2017) “How demography contributes to slower economic growth in rich nations”, Finance & Development (March) Vol. 54, No. 1.
Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, Jennifer Xue Jiang 2016 “Demographic Dividends, Human Capital, and Saving,” The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 7(April) 106–122 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2016.02.004.
Lee, Ronald and Andrew Mason 2010 “Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Global Population Aging,” Demography (47 supplement) S151-172.
Lee, Ronald and Andrew Mason 2010 “Fertility, Human Capital, and Economic Growth over the Demographic Transition,” European Journal of Population 26(2) 159-182. Online version published June 19, 2009. http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10680-009-9186-x
Andrew Mason and Tim Miller, 2000. “Dynasties, Intergenerational Transfers, and Lifecycle Income,” in A. Mason and G. Tapinos, Eds., Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, and members of the NTA Network 2014 “Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption” Science. 346(6206) 229-234. DOI: 10.1126/science.1250542.
Summary: Many countries have below replacement fertility, the level necessary to avoid long-run depopulation. Unless it is very low, however, low fertility is not necessarily an economic problem. Building on National Transfer Accounts estimates for many countries, we show that moderately low fertility – around 1.7 births per woman – favors higher standards of living.
Final submitted version available here. This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The final version was published in Science on 346 10 October 2014, DOI: 10.1126/science.1250542. Published version available here.
Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, Michael Abrigo, and Sang-Hyop Lee 2017 “Support Ratios and Demographic Dividends: Estimates for the World” United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Technical Paper No. 2017/1. http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/technical/index.shtml
Andrew Mason, 2007. “Demographic Transition and Demographic Dividends in Developing and Developed Countries,” Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Social and Economic Implications of Changing Population Age Structures, Mexico City, 31 August – 2 September 2005 (New York: United Nations) 81-102.
Mason, Andrew and Ronald Lee, 2007. “Transfers, Capital, and Consumption over the Demographic Transition” in Population Aging, Intergenerational Transfers and the Macroeconomy, Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, and Andrew Mason (Eds) Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 128-162.
Lee, Ronald and Andrew Mason, 2006. “Back to Basics: What is the Demographic Dividend” Finance & Development (Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund) 16-17. https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2006/09/basics.htm
Andrew Mason and Ronald Lee, 2006 “Reform and Support Systems for the Elderly in Developing Countries: Capturing the Second Demographic Dividend,” GENUS LXII (2) 11-35.
Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, and Timothy Miller, 2003. “From Transfers to Individual Responsibility: Implications for Savings and Capital Accumulation in Taiwan and the United States” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105(3) 339-357.
Lee, R., and Mason, A. (2012). Population aging, intergenerational transfers, and economic growth: Asia in a global context. In Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives. Committee on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Asia. J.P. Smith and M. Majmundar, Eds. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13361).
Wang Feng and Andrew Mason, 2008. “The Demographic Factor in China’s Transition,” in China’s Great Economic Transformation, Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 136-166.
Andrew Mason, ed., 2001. Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia: Challenges Met, Opportunities Seized (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller, 2001. “Saving, Wealth, and the Demographic Transition in East Asia,” Population Change and Economic Development in East Asia: Challenges Met, Opportunities Seized, Andrew Mason, ed.(Stanford: Stanford University Press) 155-184.
Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, and Tim Miller, 2000. “Life-Cycle Saving and the Demographic Transition in East Asia” Population and Economic Change in East Asia. C.Y. Cyrus Chu and Ronald Lee, Eds. A special supplement to Population and Development Review (26) 194-222.
John Bauer and Andrew Mason, “The Distribution of Income and Wealth in Japan,” Review of Income and Wealth, 38(4) (December 1992) 403‑428. Also published as occasional paper by the Democratic Study Center, Washington, D.C.
Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, and Donghyun Park, 2020 “Aging and Debt,” Asian Development Bank, Manila will be available soon as part of an ADB-sponsored book on debt sustainability in the Asia-Pacific region. In this paper we look at debt from the perspective of both the public and private sectors. In the absence of substantial reform, the supply of public debt by governments will grow much more sharply than the demand for debt by individuals seeking to fund growing pension assets.
Tomoko Kinugasa and Andrew Mason, 2007. “Why Countries Become Wealthy: The Effects of Adult Longevity on Saving” World Development 35(1): 1-23. Pub Med
Andrew Mason and Georges Tapinos, Eds., 2000. Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Andrew Mason, “National Saving Rates and Population Growth: A New Model and New Evidence,” in Gayle Johnson and Ronald D. Lee, Eds., Consequences of Population Growth in Developing Countries (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987) 523‑560.
Maxwell Fry and Andrew Mason, “The Variable Rate‑of‑Growth Effect in the Life‑cycle Saving Model,” Economic Inquiry XX (July, 1982) 426‑43.
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2013 National Transfer Accounts Manual: Measuring and Analyzing the Generational Economy (New York, NY, United Nations). (Note: UN manuals are not authored. Document was drafted by Andrew Mason and Gretchen Donehower; introductory chapter contributed by Ronald Lee.) http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/development/NTA_Manual.shtml
Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason, lead authors and editors, 2011. Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar). Selected as Outstanding Academic Publication by Choice Magazine; finalist Paul A. Samuelson Award. http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=987
Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, An-Chi Tung, Mun Sim Lai, and Tim Miller, 2009. “Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers: Introducing Age into National Income Accounts,” Developments in the Economics of Aging edited by David Wise (National Bureau of Economic Research: University of Chicago Press) 89-122.